# 2.3. On which platforms can I expect KDE to work?

KDE is a Desktop Environment for all flavours of Unix. While it is true that most KDE developers use Linux, KDE runs smoothly on a wide range of systems. You may however need to tweak the source code a bit to get KDE to compile on a not-so-popular variant of Unix, or if you are not using the GNU development tools, in particular the gcc compiler.

Some of systems on which KDE is running are:

- Linux

- Solaris

- FreeBSD

- IRIX

- HP-UX